FIN 370 Week 5 Assignment Help | Quiz | University Of Phoenix

FIN 370 Week 5 Assignment Help | Quiz | University Of Phoenix 




1.

All of the following are incremental cash flows attributable to the project EXCEPT:

 

Multiple Choice

o   financing costs.

o   opportunity costs.

o   complementary effects.

o   substitutionary effects.

 

2.

To correctly project cash flows, we need to consider all of the factors EXCEPT:

Multiple Choice

o   All of the options are factors that need to be considered.

o   the likely impact that the new service or the product will have on the firm's existing products' cost and revenues.

o   the new product's or service's costs and revenues.

o   use of assets or employees already employed by the firm.

 

3.

Which of the following measures the operating cash flow a project produces minus the necessary investment in operating capital, and is as valid for proposed new projects as it is for the firm's current operations?

Multiple Choice

o   Free cash flow

o   Investment in operating capital

o   Operating cash flow

o   Sunk cash flow

 

4.

Your company is considering a new project that will require $100,000 of new equipment at the start of the project. The equipment will have a depreciable life of 10 years and will be depreciated to a book value of $25,000 using straight-line depreciation. The cost of capital is 11 percent, and the firm's tax rate is 34 percent. Estimate the present value of the tax benefits from depreciation.

Multiple Choice

o   $13,607.52

o   $15,017.54

o   $16,997.13

o   $14,841.29

 

5.

Accelerated depreciation allows firms to:

Multiple Choice

o   receive more of the dollars of depreciation earlier in the asset's life.

o   not pay any taxes during an asset's life.

o   receive more of the dollars of depreciation later in the asset's life.

o   receive less of the dollars of depreciation earlier in the asset's life.

 

6.

You are trying to pick the least expensive car for your new delivery service. You have two choices: the Scion xA, which will cost $13,000 to purchase and which will have OCF of −$1,200 annually throughout the vehicle's expected life of three years as a delivery vehicle; and the Toyota Prius, which will cost $23,000 to purchase and which will have OCF of −$550 annually throughout that vehicle's expected five-year life. Both cars will be worthless at the end of their life. If you intend to replace whichever type of car you choose with the same thing when its life runs out, again and again out into the foreseeable future, and if your business has a cost of capital of 12 percent, what is the difference in the EAC of the two cars?

Multiple Choice

o   $413.25

o   $310.38

o   $361.13

o   $317.88

 

7.

Which of the following is a technique for evaluating capital projects that tells how long it will take a firm to earn back the money invested in a project plus interest at market rates?

Multiple Choice

o   Profitability index

o   Payback

o   Net present value

o   Discounted payback

 

8.

Compute the NPV statistic for Project X given the following cash flows if the appropriate cost of capital is 10 percent.

Project X

 

Time   0                     1                     2                     3                     4

Cash Flow      –$        100,000                                 –$        36,000                        $          200,000                                  $          210,000                                 –$        10,000

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Multiple Choice

             

o   $183,507.96

 

o   $247,410.67

 

o   $262,622.77

 

o   $248,962.50

 

 

 

 

9.

The benchmark for the profitability index (PI) is the:

Multiple Choice

o   zero or anything larger than zero.

o   managers' maximum number of years.

o   zero or anything less than zero.

o   cost of capital.

 

10.

Compute the PI statistic for Project X and note whether the firm should accept or reject the project with the cash flows shown as follows if the appropriate cost of capital is 10 percent.

 

 

Time:  0          1          2          3          4          5

Cash flow:     −250   75        0          100     75        50

Multiple Choice

o   24.41 percent, accept

o   −9.77 percent, reject

o   −24.41 percent, reject

o   −0.0977 percent, reject

 

 

 

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